elsie allen high school in santa rosa opened its doors.ple with small pets can take them to the napa county animal shelter in napa. there is also a shelter open at hessel church in sebastopol. shelters have opened up at cook middle school in santa rosa. the healdsburg community center in healdsburg is open as an evacuation center as well. there are many more shelters... to see the complete list head to our website at kron4.com steve, pam back to you. (pam) the following the following school districts will be closed again on tomorrow due to the fires in napa and sonoma counties: howell mountain elementary school district, napa valley unified school district, pope valley union elementary school district and st. helena unified school district. in addition napa valley college, and the offices and programs of the napa county office of education, will also be closed tomorrow. and all classes at sonoma state university have been suspended for tuesday... families and staff are advised to follow public health advice regarding smoke and air quality,

elsie allen high school, koom middle school, call 707-543-4542. they are looking at only dutt volunteers right now. if you are not in the area, consider staying away. many roads are closed. those that are open, they need them for people to evacuate. >> a lot of people working to help out in any way they can. only if you are in that area, that's how you can help. call the number on your screen. now we want to take it over to kari, who is tracking a lot of the wind that is causing the embers to spread. >> the wind is blowing from north to south. it's spreading southward. we can see where the largest fire is, the atlas fire. we can see a larger area, where that thickest smoke is covering that area right now. a lot of people are familiar with the silverado trail, to the east of calistoga. that is where we have the wildfire burning at this point and continues to spread that smoke farther to the south as we see rugged terrain, a lot of trees and the valleys in between where we have the fire spreading to downtown napa, farther to the south. that is makin

elsie allen high school in santa rosa opened its doors. people with small pets can take them to the napa county animal shelter in napa. there is also a shelter open at hessel church in sebastopol. shelters have opened up at cook middle school in santa rosa. the healdsburg community center in healdsburg is open as an evacuation center as well. there are many more shelters... to see the complete list head to our website at kron4.com steve, pam back to you. (pam) the following school districts will be closed again on tomorrow due to the fires in napa and sonoma counties: howell mountain elementary school district, napa valley unified school district, pope valley union elementary school district and st. helena unified school district. in addition napa valley college, and the offices and programs of the napa county office of education, will also be closed tomorrow. and all classes at sonoma state university have been suspended for tuesday... families and staff are advised to follow public health advice regarding smoke and air quality, and to st

elsie allen high school in santa rosa opened its doors.ple with small pets can take them to the napa county animal shelter in napa. there is also a shelter open at hessel church in sebastopol. shelters have opened up at cook middle school in santa rosa. the healdsburg community center in healdsburg is open as an evacuation center as well. there are many more shelters... to see the complete list head to our website at kron4.com steve, pam back to you. (pam ) people in the north bay have been without power all day... right now... 99-thousand customers remain without customers remain without power tonight ... and the majority of them are in sonoma and napa counties. as a precaution... p-g-&-e has turned off gas service to approximately 26-thousand customers in santa rosa, yountville, and kenwood. additionally, additionally, another four- thousand customers in the willits to calpella area had their gas lines shut off as well. once p-g-and -e receives the go -ahead from cal-fire, p-g&e will turn the power back on.... crews want to remind people

they include the finley center, the fairgrounds veterans building and elsie allen high school. bus schedules will be posted at the shelters. >>> assistance centers also open now in napa at the health and human services building on napa valley corporate drive. the hours are 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. today through friday. and then 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on saturday and sunday. >>> when our neighbors are in need, abc 7 shows up. this week michael finney and 7 on your side will be at north bay evacuation centers to help people affected by the wildfires. come see us tomorrow at the veterans memorial building in santa rosa. for a list of all locations, go to abc7news.com/7onyourside. michael will be there to answer your questions. >>> a social media campaign takes off on the heels of the harvey weinstein scandal. how just two words are raising awareness about sexual assault in a big way. >>> and a live look right now from our exploratorium camera at pier 15 in san francisco. the skies are not totally clear today, but meteorologist lisa argen is tracking rain later in the week. details

elsie allen high school is open, new life christian fellowship church on clegg street is also an evacuations the petaluma community center at 320 mcdowell boulevard and the sebastopol community center at 390 morris street. also the analy high school and eve queue keys in in sonoma county are being given shelter at solano community college. we have a full list of evacuation centers on our website. >>> it was a better night for firefighters last night because of the conditions, the weather could become a little trickier tonight. hi, mike nicco. >> let's run through that. that's exactly what's going to happen. hi, everybody. yeah, the conditions were great for the firefighters overnigt and will be through most of the daylight hours today, unfortunately that means the air has stagnated and american canyon, venetia, val low and air quality across the entire t- state, some of that you can see is leaking up into san rafael as we look south on 180. we have to make a new graphic, that hazardous you see on the graphic on the left side all the way at the bottom that's where you sit right now in those

across town the elsie allen campus was turned into the largest yard sale, everything for free. >> people really back on america. we complain about america but we're so lucky to be here. we are so, so lucky. >> what a perspective. a nonprofit provider was destroyed in the fire. a gofundme page has been set up to help inova rebuild. >>> this next story starts with great loss and ends with great generosity. we met an ironworker who learned the fire stole just about everything he owned including the tools that provide his livelihood. >> he got help from a mom who knows what it's like to lose something precious. matt keller was there as the two strangers connected. >> reporter: the recovery in santa rosa begins in san pablo. >> picking up some tools. >> reporter: the ironworker's home in coffey park and his tools were destroyed monday. abc 7 news interviewed about his escape. >> actually, i saw dana on the news. i was playing with my phone and i heard ironworker. i looked over and caught his last name. >> reporter: she reached out to let him know she had a full set of ironworker tools. they c

in sonoma county elsie allen high school at 599 bellevue avenue is open to evacuees. new life christian church on clegg street, also the petaluma county center and the sbast pole community center in sebastopol. also the analy high solano community college on suisan valley road in fairfield. we are updating this on our website. >>> hospitals in santa rosa are asking those who do not have a medical emergency to go to urgent care and avoid the er. >> they want those burn patients with any respiratory issues, folks that have any type of preexisting conditio and need to get immediate help because of the air quality, they want them to go there. some scary moments that we saw yesterday and this we saw live when we were covering these fires yesterday morning, those flames really getting close, reggie, to kaiser permanente in santa rosa. staff working tirelessly despite even losing some of their own homes. >>> we know many people have lost their homes and so we have shelters set up for them so they can rest here and either come back to work or go to see what is going on with t

the red cross is asking for volunteers to distribute supplies at elsie allen middle school, those schoolsn as emergency shelters, more than 12,000 people have been evacuated. there are six major wildfires burning in north california right now, combined they have burned more than 80,000 acres. the atlas fire holding at 25,000 acres, the red wood complex fire has ballooned to 19,000 acres, 0% containment on any of those fires, the sulphur fire has grown to 2,500 acres that that is 5% contained. we have live team coverage of the fires in napa and sonoma counties. >> alexa smith is covering road closures. >> and the weather playing a big role in the firefighting effort today. mike, the wind has fueled these fires, is it getting any better? >> absolutely. couldn't get much better, jessica, than it is right now. calm conditions at about 3 miles per hour. those are the environmental winds, now, you know around the fire itself it will create its own wind pattern, so the gusts could be locally breezy there, but as far as the environment, yeah, it's great. we still have a high fire danger until 5:0

we are talking about volunteers they need volunteers the red cross does at elsie allen high school in santa rosa. if you're able to help the evacuees and help you're urged torg to the high school in santa rosa. we should add comcast is providing free wi-fi spots. that's been an issue of getting cell phone sft service out of areas we are owned by comcast. that's a zircht story. >> people need to get in touch with loved one. jeff ranieri fortunately the tufrmts go down and the wind have subsided. >> two great points. and that's what the big focus is on this update. we're trying to vary the information as much as possible. with he no he so many have been impacted by the smoke and we'll give you a closer look. all of the gray areas you see on this again is the smoke from the fires burning in the north bay. five different fires. you can see how massive that smoke plume is not only over the north bay but some of the smoke filtered out to the pacific. a closer look at the area impacted the worst of course it's right on top of the fire zones. this is where it's critical that you're not breath

those sites are in santa rosa at elsie allen high and lawrence cook middle school.e monday the salvaton army has fed over 22 thousand people from several other evacuation centers in sonoma county. in napa county the salvation army has served more than 16-thousand meals through saturday at the finley community center, the veterans memorial building and the grace pavilion in sanata rosa.... and since last week...the salvation army has distributed nearly 14 hundred meals at solano community college...suisun valley road in fairfield. (jr stone) and tonight there are still road closrues across the north bay due to the wildfires. in sonoma county...us-101 northbound at the mendocino ave off ramp is closed until further notice. in napa county... state road 121 at vichy avenue is shut down. and in solano county... wooden valley road at wooden valley cross is closed. and for a full list of road closures in the north bay...check our website...it's all on kron four dot com. (jr stone) we have complete coverage of the deadly north bay fire storm...on-air and online. we have a l

elsie allen high school and lawrence cook middle school served as shelters during the evacuations caused by the tubbs and nuns fires. counselors will be present at the schools for students who aredealing with the stress and trauma after the fires. school breakfast and lunch will also be available to any studentwho needs a meal. 11-more schools are scheduled to open monday.reporting live in santa rosa, lydia pantazes kron 4 need. ( will ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( will ) metallica is stepping up to help the victims of the north bay firestorm -- with a benefit concert. tickets go on sale this morning at 10.<"we are happy to announce that there will now be a concert on november 9th at at&t park called band together. a benefit for all the people who have suffered and experienced incredible devastation in the north bay fires.">(will) metallica says 100-percent of your donations will go to charity to help the victims of the north bay fires. dave matthews will also be performing. tickets start at 50 dollars... and go up to 200. still ahead on the kron

elsie allen high school and lawrence cook middle school served as shelters during the evacuations caused fires. counselors will be present at the schools for students who aredealing with the stress and trauma after the fires. school breakfast and lunch will also be available to any studentwho needs a meal.when we spoke with the principal of piner high school friday he talked about how the district would need help assisting students affected by the fire at schools in the area.you can help by donating money or gift cards to the santa rosa high school district.reporting live in santa rosa, lydia pantazes kron4 news. <"it's gonna be because we school and we have a lot of to do like it was the end of the we missed it because of the fires. and so we have a lot of catching up to do. it's gonna be tough."> <"it's gonna be hard to be back because we missed a lot of school and we have a lot of important things the end of the we missed it because of the have a lot of do. it's gonna be tough."> ( terisa ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. .( james ) happening today..

they include elsie allen high school in santa rosa, the sonoma county fairgrounds, the sebastopol community center. you'll find a complete list on our website, abc7news.com. the abc 7 news app sent out a push alert shortly after the new mandatory evacuations were issued in sonoma valley. and as always, you can be the first to know when breaking news happen where you live. so again, we have an image on the screen right now, mandatory evacuations. this is added to the list. highway 12 from adobe canyon to calistoga road, you've got to evacuate, westbound to santa rosa, immediately. >>> in the north bay, the winds have been a very huge concern throughout the morning meteorologist lisa argen has been tracking it all for us, she's here now with a first look at our accuweather forecast. lisa? >> chris, those winds in the val valley will be picking up around sunrise. we have highest winds in the upper elevations. then they'll be down to the surface. we're looking at wind gusts over 20 miles per hour above about a thousand feet. these winds will be funneled into the lower valley areas. we'll see wi

volunteers are now needed to help fire evacuees at elsie allen high school and cook middle school.f you can make your way to either location, call 707-543-45-42 and you will be given an assignment. they want adult volunteers only and only if it is safe for you to go in that area. the red cross already exhausted their volunteer pool. this is going to be a very long fight for the people being evacuated from the area. the fire is zero containment of any multiple fires burning. >> the main priority is to get people to safety. the fires are spreading and spreading quickly. a lot of people are being sent to evacuation centers or heading to them. that's where we find bob redell, live at crosswalk community church in napa. bob, you have been here for a while now, seeing a lot of people come in to find safety. >> reporter: right. this is one of the main evacuation shelters in napa. behind us is highway 29. saw five cal fire trucks heading north toward the atlas peak area. david is one of the people who has evacuated. where do you live? >> silverado crest. >> reporter: you are not optimistic

these include elsie allen high school in santa rosa. the sonoma county fairgrounds and the sebastopol community center. you'll find a complete list on abc7news.com. we want to point out that buses are now staged at the safeway on highway 12 in calistoga road for anyone who needs alternate transportation. again, that's the safeway on highway 12 and calistoga road for those who need alternate transportation to get out of the affected areas. >>> so roughly 400 households are impacted by these new mandatory evacuations in sonoma. abc 7 news reporter cornell barnard joins us from lovall road in sonoma. this is one of the areas being evacuated right now. cornell, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris, yeah, this scary situation continues to unfold. we've been talking about these mandatory evacuations all morning long. take a look, this is the reason why. smoke and flames, very visible claims continue to lap the very top of the ridge here in the northeast section of the sonoma valley. those flames died down maybe about two minutes ago

. >> elsie allen is open for vac weighs. and new life christian church taken in 1500 people. >> also open to help people. pet luna community center. sebastopol community center. >> analy high school, also in sebastopol. neighbors in the wooded area are being evacuated to slaun know community college. >> and because of the the number of evacuation marin county has -- also the burton recreation center in reyna oak park is opened. 7421 burton avenue. >> authorities at marin county has set up a center. so far more than 600 have come in. they are up to 40 cats, dogs and birds. the county is still accessing wha what can be done over night. >> small household animals can be taken to shelters. horses can be taken to the santa reside fairgrounds in santa rosa. >>> right now let's take a look at this video sent to us from tyler clark. it was posted on social media. you can see him driving through a neighborhood, inferno in santa rosa, trying to escape the flames. all the homes that have been burning. look at the embers that flew durin

. >> elsie allen is open for vac weighs. and new life christian church taken in 1500 people. >> also open to help people. pet luna community center. sebastopol community center. >> analy high school, also in sebastopol. neighbors in the wooded area are being evacuated to slaun know community college. >> and because of the the number of evacuation marin county has -- also the burton recreation center in reyna oak park is opened. 7421 burton avenue. >> authorities at marin county has set up a center. so far more than 600 have come in. they are up to 40 cats, dogs and birds. the county is still accessing wha what can be done over night. >> small household animals can be taken to shelters. horses can be taken to the santa reside fairgrounds in santa rosa. >>> right now let's take a look at this video sent to us from tyler clark. it was posted on social media. you can see him driving through a neighborhood, inferno in santa rosa, trying to escape the flames. all the homes that have been burning. look at the embers that flew durin

if you're interested in helping you can go to the elsie allen high school in santa rosa. we talked about wi-fi spots. comcast is offering free hot spots in santa rosa. comcast is our parent company. >> they are doing that to help emergency sponers communicate with each other because cell service is so spotty. if if you are donating money is the best way to go. some toiletries would be nice. some people are donating water. money, cash is the best. they can use the money to help the relief efforts for the victims who lost everything. >> we talked about the shelters around both snappa and sonoma. airbnb is offering free housing zero cost to speem compacted in the santa rosa area. one of the corporate partners stepping up airbnb and we have reports of gas lines gas stations sold out because as we have seen people have been driving away since 1 in the morning. gas lines are long and some gas stations are sold out. >> we want to go to the other story, the earthquake that was felt around the bay area, 4.19 magnitude in the allen rock area of san jose. our ion cull is in that are

the elsie allen high school in santa rosa. new life christian church in petaluma.ers, petaluma community center, sebastopol community center in sebastopol. analy high school is a new one for sebastopol. that one opened up within the last hour or so. the solano community college in fair field. and lawrence cook opened up within the last half hour or so. >> this is video from kaiser permanente in santa rosa taken about an hourin ing ago. we're looking at what appears to be a critical patient who is being taken away from the flames burning very chess lose to the . the flames you saw in that picture, those are now out. the fire department was able to show up and put that fire that was very close to the hospital out but, of course, the larger fire continues to burn not very far from kaiser permanente so they have been evacuating their patients. our amy hollyfield has been there and she saw the electricity go out and generator kick in. that evacuation has been successful. >> my sister lives just off redmond highway and may have lost her house. she has my mom with her. sh

the red cross is asking for volunteers to help distribute supplies at elsie allen high school and cookschool in santa rosa. both schools were open as emergency shelters, if you can volunteer today i tweeted out the number you can call. more than 20,000 people have been evacuated so far and take a look at the map. all together there are six major wildfires burning right now, combined more than 80,000 acres charld, the atlas fire holding at 25,000 acres, the red wood fire has ballooned to 19,000 acres, zero containment on any of those fires, the sulphur fire has grown to 2,500 acres that one is 5% contined. >> good morning. it is now just after 5:30. one of the key components of how this is going to go today is of course the weather. mike, not a lot of winds no you but that's going to change tonight. >>est that the key, tonight. whatever they can get contained hopefully today they will be able to hold it tonight and tomorrow night as the winds pick up once again. that's not fog, that is smoke. mile and a half visibility at the napa county airport. places like american canyon, val low, ve

elsie allen high school and lawrence cook middle school served as shelters during the evacuations caused by the tubbs and nuns fires. counselors will be present at the schools for students who aredealing with the stress and trauma after the fires. school breakfast and lunch will also be available to any studentwho needs a meal. 11-more schools are scheduled to open monday.reporting live in santa rosa, lydia pantazes kron 4 need. (vicki) in southern california... the wildomar fire is forcing hundreds of homes to go under mandatory evacuation orders tonight in western riverside county. it doubled in size overnight and is now at 700 acres. c-h-p says the fire started after a teenage motorcycle rider crashed into a tree yesterday afternoon in the wildomar off-highway vehicle area. that's 70 miles southeast of los angeles. the fire is 15 percent contained right now. there are no reports of injuries. (grant) new at five: this weekend... and especially tomorrow...we're anticipating warm weather in the bay...and for many that could mean a nice fall beach day. but,,,forecasters expect large waves

those sites are in santa rosa at elsie allen high and lawrence cook middle school.nday the salvaton army has fed over 22 thousand people from several other evacuation centers in sonoma county. in napa county the salvation army has served more than 16-thousand meals through saturday at the finley community center, the veterans memorial building and the grace pavilion in santa rosa.... and since last week...the salvation army has distributed nearly 14 hundred meals at solano community college on suisun valley road in fairfield. ( james ) this morning there are still road closrues across the north bay because of the wildfires. in sonoma county...101 northbound at the mendocino ave off ramp is closed until further notice. in napa county... state road 121 at vichy avenue is shut down. and in solano county... wooden valley road at wooden valley cross is closed. and for a full list of road closures in the north bay...check our website...it's all on kron four dot com. ( james ) we have complete coverage of the deadly north bay fire storm...on-air and online. we have a list

they need to help the fire evacuees at elsie allen high school and cook middle school. if you can safely make it to either location, call 707-543-4542 and you will be given an assignment. we are going to hear the call for volunteers in the coming days. we are going into the "today" show hour. we are going to stay here with your local news this morning to continue to give you more information about these fire that is are burning out of control at this point. >> taking a toll on firefighters as well. we heard from cal fire about all of this. they said the fire really caught a lot of people off guard. >> we received multiple phone calls from people who stated they were trapped, the fire was surrounding them. we have done our best to go ahead and effect evacuations for as many of those as we can. but, i'll be honest with you, we don't have full accounting for everybody right now. it's too early to say if everybody was able to take shelter effectively or not. we hope for the best. we'll have to find out more as the morning breaks. >> all right. new information from cal fire

elsie allen high school opened this morning. new life christian church if you wish. if you are heading to these sites there is heavy traffic on the way to the areas. petaluma community center opened this morning. sebastapol community center taking evacuees. >> we should note that all of these are on our website, abc7news.com. we are going through them quickly here. burton recreation center is open to take in evacuees. that is one of the newest centers that opened up. >> alexis smith has been monitoring traffic conditions. it is slow going for people trying to get out. >> it sure is. >> i have several updates. this is impacting mass transit. smart train service has been cancelled this morning. they are saying as a result of extreme fire conditionsism i know that was impacting. they will not be operating in addition to the transit. all santa rosa bus service suspended due to one of the many large fires in the area. that is mass transit. as far as road closures are concerned we have a full closure of 101 between bicentennial and northwest springs road. that is in the sa

the red cross asking for any volunteers who want to help assist with fire evacuees at the elsie allengh school and middle school. they need immediate assistance to help people check in and distribute supplies and other activities as they are needed. both schools are open as emergency shelter locations and the red cross is asking for volunteers. if you have time, they would like you to head out and help them out.>> you see residents consoling each other and all of the children that are involved. we just showed a downed backboard for basketball and a bicycle burned out. a lot of these people are with their kids in evacuation center's this morning or huddled in with friends. not just in santa rosa but i have been driven out of their homes in napa. here we are driving down the street in napa. >> gated communities. >> you see what is left or a gate before a driveway and it is gate after gate entering the home at all and there you see the framework of a home. just charred rubble and wreckage, ashes everywhere. neighborhoods obliterated at this morning. as we look at some of the bigger homes

elsie allen high school and lawrence cook middle school served as shelters during the evacuations causedy the tubbs and nuns fires. counselors will be present at the schools for students who aredealing with the stress and trauma after the fires. school breakfast and lunch will also be available to any studentwho needs a meal.when we spoke with the principal of piner high school friday he talked about how the district would need help assisting students affected by the fire at schools in the area.you can help by donating money or gift cards to the santa rosa high school district.reporting live in santa rosa, lydia pantazes kron4 news. ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( terisa ) a couple is behind bars after accused of looting homes in neighborhoods devastated by wildfires in the north bay. police say they stole a truck in rohnert park, then made their way to santa rosa. on saturday ... police received calls of two suspicious people at the overlook apartments on bi-centennial way. a neighbors reported that johnathon conner and christina marsh were

elsie allen high school and lawrence cook middle school served as shelters during the evacuations causedhe tubbs and nuns fires. counselors will be present at the schools for students who aredealing with the stress and trauma after the fires. school breakfast and lunch will also be available to any studentwho needs a meal. 11-more schools are scheduled to open monday.reporting live in santa rosa, lydia pantazes kron 4 need. ( will ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. ( terisa ) in santa rosa, hundreds gathered at a meeting with government officials to figure out a way to cleanup and rebuild. but it appeared there were more questions than officials could answer. ( terisa )people were asked to write down their questions so that the officials could answer them at a later date.that did not make some of the participants very